Your London Wedding - Page number 44 - November/December 2021 (Issue 80)

Beautiful blooms set the scene for Rosie and Seb’s Wimbledon wedding R osie has her bestie to thank for setting her up with Seb. “We met on a blind date at The Ship pub in Wandsworth. My best friend Tara thought our quirky sense of humour would be a good match and she was right,” Rosie shares. Seb’s surprise proposal came 18 months later during a trip to Scotland where Rosie’s from. “We’d gone to do a charity event and then went on to our favourite getaway destination in the heart of the Cairngorms to a stunning place called Killiehuntly,” she recalls. “He’d arranged for a pony picnic trek up into the hills where he’d hidden our friends, a bagpiper and an amazing lunch all inside an abandoned shepherd’s bothy.” Their wedding was originally planned to take place in a chateau in the South of France but as with so many other couples this had to be re-arranged. After yet another postponement they decided that they didn’t want to wait any longer and started to look closer to home. “It was complete luck that Chelsea Old Town Hall had one Saturday spot with an available registrar free, but it was in three weeks time,” Rosie recalls. Due to the tight timeframes, they decided to host the reception in their Wimbledon garden and with the help of their loved ones, they pulled it off to perfection. Here, Rosie shares all the details... After waiting so long to be married, our ceremony was very special. We had flower collars for our dogs Baxter and Winston! Our catering was provided by the wonderful Olly Marlow who we met through a friend. He came to our rescue with the most incredible canapes and 3-course-meal. heart is Home is where the In the evening we plugged in a playlist and let the ABBA songs blast out. Watching so many men sing and dance along was really funny. We both felt incredibly overwhelmed by the love and gravity of the day. I don’t think we’ve ever smiled so much in our entire life. 44